1865—Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end.

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

A ‘NOVA’ presentation offers an entertaining, informative look at the potent firepower of antique armaments.

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

There are few Americans today who do not know the name Harriet Tubman. Famous for her work on the Underground Railroad, ...

Morris received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions on September 17, 1969, while commanding the Third Company, Third Battalion of the IV Mobile Strike Force near Chi Lang, Vietnam. Then-Staff ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

They sell every kind of gun you can imagine, from high-powered automatic rifles to antique pistols dating back hundreds of years. AMERICAN GUNS follows the Wyatts, the family owners of Gunsmoke, as ...

The scene recalls the footage American director John Ford shot from ... French-controlled Algeria was mired in a brutal civil war. In 1966, Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo released "The Battle ...

Guns N’ Roses announced Wednesday (March 19 ... He has also played with A Perfect Circle, American Idol fan favorite Adam Lambert, and The Exies.